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FREE social networking website backed by the NHS

Help at hand for the housebound

HEALTH Reporter Helen Rae explains how an NHS backed website is improving care for patients. 

A FREE social networking website backed by the NHS is improving care for housebound patients and their carers.

Justvisiting.com is a not-for-profit website which is built around a secure interactive message board which creates online visiting rooms where hospital and housebound patients and their carers can meet up and talk to their friends and family.

Children and carers enjoying Norwich Heritage Week

Shaping 24 NORWICH Heritage Week at the Norwich Forum

 

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Carers are often “invisible” despite the fact that their work is difficult

Carers ‘need to look after themselves too’

 

Healthcare News
14/09/2011
One expert has warned that the deteriorating health of a carer could negatively impact on the individual they are looking after.

 

Family carers who look after their relatives so they do not have to find a care home should remember to take care of themselves, according to one author.

 

Rosie Staal, author of What Shall We Do With Mother? How to Manage When Your Elderly Parent is Dependent On You, said that if a carer is in bad health, this can have a negative impact on the individual they are looking after.